I lived in Germany for nine years. A Pastor in Frankfurt used to haunt second hand furniture shops. He managed to score three shield clocks with little organ pipes on top playing tunes. The only other ones I saw were in the Deutsches Museum in Munich. I applaud your creativity. I just finished restoring a woodchopper cuckoo I got for 20 bucks at the flea market. I said a lot of bad words in the process.
@speedstick77 Those organ clocks are worth a fortune if they are in good condition. I have a woodchopper cuckoo clock that plays music, with a waterwheel on the side. I haven't videoed it but it is featured in my most recent clock collection video.
@Adelaide6986 Well, strictly speaking, they are. I used redundant cuckoo clock bellows to convert this clock to play the Whittington tune in this way.
In the Black Forest in Germany there were musical clocks made, which used a big single bellow to play tunes using several tuned pipes like an organ.
Many thanks for your replies regarding this clock and about your other clocks.
I am intrigued about your case maker, your repair of clocks and other clocks you will hopefully load onto the site later this year.
As you know I have been trying to persuade or at least make enquiries of Sodaclublad if he will sell his Gustav Becker longcase with the German version of the Whittington chime which he may do so, but on eBay, so I may just have to take my chances.
@glisses7 Freddy McAulay lived locally and I'm not sure what else he built. I think he was mainly a woodworker. I may find out more in the near future. My own work on clocks is hampered by a lack of workshop facilities, but I occasionally get the help of a friend with a shed, which is very useful! I have other clocks in the process of being assembled at the moment and I have a long list of projects which will comfortably stretch into next year. I'm already running out of space to display clocks!
@glisses7 Thanks. The case was made by a local man called Freddy McAulay, and it did not have any worthy use for the large front aperture. Several ideas came to my mind before this one. I have dozens of clocks and I repair them whenever my meagre talents and tools allow. There are more clocks in the pipeline and I hope to have them complete and uploaded during the second half of the year.
I would but one of the threads is off at the moment and I haven't got round to fixing it yet. I wish the bellows could be lifted higher but the Haller movement isn't fit for the task. If I adjust the hammer stems to lift higher it just grinds to a halt... :-(
Wow what an amazing clock never heard Whittington chime on bellows before. Thanks for this great video
Gartfield112 3 weeks ago
Oh, cool. Well, thank you for answering.
Clockmaniac5445 1 month ago
Are they pulled by a string?
Clockmaniac5445 1 month ago
@Clockmaniac5445 Each has a thread connecting it to the hammer stem on the movement.
TommyWylie 1 month ago
I love this! Very cool and creative :)
meanjean214 2 months ago
I lived in Germany for nine years. A Pastor in Frankfurt used to haunt second hand furniture shops. He managed to score three shield clocks with little organ pipes on top playing tunes. The only other ones I saw were in the Deutsches Museum in Munich. I applaud your creativity. I just finished restoring a woodchopper cuckoo I got for 20 bucks at the flea market. I said a lot of bad words in the process.
speedstick77 4 months ago
@speedstick77 Those organ clocks are worth a fortune if they are in good condition. I have a woodchopper cuckoo clock that plays music, with a waterwheel on the side. I haven't videoed it but it is featured in my most recent clock collection video.
TommyWylie 4 months ago
Lovely I didn't know that cuckoo clocks weren't the only clocks that used bellows.
Adelaide6986 5 months ago
@Adelaide6986 Well, strictly speaking, they are. I used redundant cuckoo clock bellows to convert this clock to play the Whittington tune in this way.
In the Black Forest in Germany there were musical clocks made, which used a big single bellow to play tunes using several tuned pipes like an organ.
TommyWylie 5 months ago
you are missing the cuckoo clock with bells... :D
tonihc19 11 months ago
what a unique clock!
napavines 11 months ago
wooowww that's so coool :):):):O:O:O
Rumbata6 1 year ago
Hello Tommy
Many thanks for your replies regarding this clock and about your other clocks.
I am intrigued about your case maker, your repair of clocks and other clocks you will hopefully load onto the site later this year.
As you know I have been trying to persuade or at least make enquiries of Sodaclublad if he will sell his Gustav Becker longcase with the German version of the Whittington chime which he may do so, but on eBay, so I may just have to take my chances.
Best.
Gaius
glisses7 1 year ago
@glisses7 Freddy McAulay lived locally and I'm not sure what else he built. I think he was mainly a woodworker. I may find out more in the near future. My own work on clocks is hampered by a lack of workshop facilities, but I occasionally get the help of a friend with a shed, which is very useful! I have other clocks in the process of being assembled at the moment and I have a long list of projects which will comfortably stretch into next year. I'm already running out of space to display clocks!
TommyWylie 1 year ago
Very, very clever indeed! It's cute and it's incorporated into an existing clock. Do you repair clocks?
Thanks.
GC
glisses7 1 year ago
@glisses7 Thanks. The case was made by a local man called Freddy McAulay, and it did not have any worthy use for the large front aperture. Several ideas came to my mind before this one. I have dozens of clocks and I repair them whenever my meagre talents and tools allow. There are more clocks in the pipeline and I hope to have them complete and uploaded during the second half of the year.
TommyWylie 1 year ago
Sounds nice but, chimes on rods is beautiful!
thefroghunter20 2 years ago
sounds like a Mad Hatters tea time! please upload sriking 12^_^
hoipolloi890 2 years ago
@hoipolloi890
I would but one of the threads is off at the moment and I haven't got round to fixing it yet. I wish the bellows could be lifted higher but the Haller movement isn't fit for the task. If I adjust the hammer stems to lift higher it just grinds to a halt... :-(
TommyWylie 2 years ago
Hoipolloi890 means PLEASE! (after the clock is fixed)
thefroghunter20 2 years ago
ingenious! that's totally unique -
jparr17 2 years ago
it makes me smile really nice
anonimous63 2 years ago
Brilliant! As I clock collector, I have never seen anything like it...
regrothenberger 2 years ago